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Tenths

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Tenths [decim', Lat.], tithes; also the tenth part of the annual value of every spiritual preferment, paid in early times to the pope, transferred from the pope to the Crown by 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, and from the Crown, for the augmentation of small livings, to the Church by 2 Anne, s. 8. See also FIRST FRUITS; BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE.

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